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Slow Life is a beautiful look in macrophotography at the growth of marine life like coral and sponges. Created by University of Queensland PhD student Daniel Stoupin, the video was made using more than 150,000 photographs. The photographs were initially captured to study various elements of coral and sponge behavior, and after some months the photographer realized the images could be used to show the beauty of microscopic reef “landscapes.”

Everybody loves colorful butterfly wings, and they’re just as beautiful and colorful up close. Photographer Linden Gledhill has a penchant for macrophotography, and one of her series focuses on a closer look at butterfly wings. They are beautiful, so is their slight resemblance to flower petals.

Photographer Jimmy Kong has this wonderful collection of macrophotographs of spiders, where they seem to have focused all their beady eyes right at the camera, apparently with the motive of stealing your soul. Or making it shit bricks, or whatever it is that souls do. His work also involves several other insects, but spideys are by far, the creepiest.

Russian Photographer Alexey Kljatov‘s DIY camera rig doesn’t quite look impressive at first glance. Then you take a look at the images he captures, and suddenly the camera rig appears pretty darn sweet. At the basics, Alexey made use of a board, screws, glass, some tape and the lens of an old camera to create this setup. All of these things work along a Canon Powershot A650 to capture beautiful close up images of snowflakes.

Macrophotography is cool in ways that it lets us take a look at things we wouldn’t notice. Perhaps it is about the angle you capture them with, or about the sheer ugliness of something, that things don’t always look good in photographs. Take a look at these insect macrophotographs coming from the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. We have seen a sample of their photography before, and the bees really do look good.

The world hosts about 20,000 species of bees, out of which 4000 can be found in North America. The US Geological Survey’s Bee Inventory and Monitoring program spent 10 years capturing photographs of the insects and documenting them in great detail.

Based in the Netherlands, photographer Wil Mijer loves to take a closer look at butterflies and frogs for a very eye catching set of macrophotographs. The photographer however rues the fact that many species and habitats of butterflies have disappeared from the Netherlands and she has to go to Belgium or Germany to capture the bulk of these photographs.

Ants are powerful little fighters who are not afraid of going to war. Photographer Alex Wild‘s set Ants Fighting shows numerous macro photographs of ants going to war. Once you take a look at the images, you realize this isn’t something you can just stroll and see. The photographer traveled over large areas of the globe to capture these images that show same and different species of ants going to war.

Soap bubbles are generally cute but in the photography of Thomas Jane they transform into something that is very lovely, with a generous helping of psychedelic appearance. Never thought I’d say this, but soap bubbles, I’m impressed.